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W'field PD joining agencies in crackdown
The Waynesfield Police Department is joining 10,000 other law enforcement agencies from around the nation in support of an intensive crackdown on impaired driving to begin today.
The enforcement period for the effort — "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" — extends through Labor Day, Sept. 5. As part of the enforcement, police are vowing to arrest everyone found driving over the legal alcohol limit.
Data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration indicates the number of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities in America fell from 2008 to 2009, but numbers are still too high, said Waynesfield Police Chief Nathan Motter.
In 2009, 10,839 people died in crashes in which a driver or motorcycle rider was at or above the legal limit, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The age group with the highest percentage of alcohol-impaired driving fatalities in motor vehicle traffic crashes was 21- to 24-years-old.
"All too often, innocent, law-abiding people suffer tragic consequences and the loss of loved ones due to this careless disregard for human life," Motter said.
"Because we're committed to ending the carnage, we're intensifying enforcement during the crackdown," he said. "Since twice as many alcohol-impaired accidents occur over the weekend and four times as many occur at night, we will be especially vigilant during these high-risk times when impaired drivers are most likely to be on our roads."
Across the country, it is illegal to drive with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08 grams per deciliter or higher, but according to the latest data, nearly a third of fatalities in motor vehicle traffic crashes involve a driver or motorcycle rider with a BAC above the legal limit.
The nationwide drinking and driving crackdown is to include law enforcement officers in every state and many U.S. cities and towns.
Motter said his officers will be aggressively looking for all impaired drivers during the crackdown and will arrest anyone they find driving while impaired — regardless of age, vehicle type or time of day.
"Our message is simple and unwavering: if we find you driving impaired, we will arrest you, no exceptions," Motter said.
"Even if you beat the odds and manage to walk away from an impaired-driving crash alive, the trauma and financial costs of a crash or an arrest for driving while impaired can still destroy your life," he said.
Motter said violaters often face jail time, loss of their driver licenses or are sentenced to use ignition interlocks. Insurance rates go up and it often means other financial hits as well, including attorney fees, court costs, lost time at work and the potential loss of job or job prospects. When family, friends and coworkers find out, violators also can face tremendous personal embarrassment and humiliation.
"Driving impaired is simply not worth all the consequences, so don't take the chance," Motter said.
"Remember, drive sober or get pulled over," he said.

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AT&T, CBS Interactive and Stageside Productions' live webcast concert series, "Stageside Live," will feature four-time Grammy Award nominee and world-renowned singer-songwriter Jewel in a live webcast performance from the world-famous "Austin City Limits Live" at The Moody Theater in Austin, Texas, Wednesday, May 1 (9 p.m.), on CBS.com.
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Jewel's "Stageside Live" performance will include songs off her recent "Greatest Hits" album, including new track "Two Hearts Breaking," and favorites "You Were Meant For Me" and "Foolish Games." Jewel's 20-plus-year career has crossed musical genres and speaks to her unique abilities as a multi-faceted artist and charismatic live performer. She's had a tremendous amount of success as a singer-songwriter - including more than 27 million albums sold and four Grammy Award nominations. Jewel's latest album features a collection of her most well-known songs as well as two new duets with Kelly Clarkson and The Pistol Annies. On May 27, she will star as June Carter Cash in the film "Ring of Fire," based on June's life.
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Hunger Day brings awareness
Today marks a day to recognize the hungry.
June 7 is declared "National Hunger Awareness Day" by the U.S. Senate. Millions of Americans struggle with hunger and food insecurities — and a study done in 2010 states 6,000 of those people live in Auglaize County.
A local food pantry is recognizing this national day.
"I think in a pretty little town, where we have hungry and homeless people, it is important to get the word out," Mercy Unlimited Food Pantry Manager Valerie Coffey said, "and help people in our own backyard."
Mercy Unlimited serves approximately 360 clients per month and during the summertime months the needs tends to increase.
Many may wonder who are the hungry.
"They are the unemployed, under-employed, disabled and elderly," a news release from Mercy Unlimited says. "They are those who lives have met financial hardship due to illness or tragedy. They are your neighbors and mine."
Households with children experience food insecurity at twice the rate than those with no children.
Coffey said the summer months result in a greater need because the school-aged children are no longer in session at school, so while they were getting free or reduced breakfasts and lunches during the school year, they are no longer getting them in the summer, so families are faced with providing those meals on a "wallet that was already too thin."
"It puts a bigger dent in people's budgets," Coffey said of summer months.
Coffey said with the growing number of people who are in need of food assistance programs, it is hard to put dinner on the table.
"There are a lot of gaps in the system, and if you don't qualify (for food assistance programs) it is hard to put food on the table," Coffey said.
According to the news release, even if a family receives food stamps, it leaves a huge gap in the family's budget. The average recipient is provided the equivalent of around $4 per day, which leaves $28 for 21 meals. This figure makes it hard to provide nutritious and fresh foods. And with people not qualifying for these programs, it make the gap wider.
"Through the generous donations by businesses, families, organizations and individuals, Mercy Unlimited is trying to help bridge the divide," Coffey said. "Our highest time of need is during the summer months when donations are usually down. People get busy with vacations and spending time at the pool and just don't think about donating outside of holiday time."
Food pantries provide approximately 29 percent of the food needed to fill the meal gap.
"As summer blooms into abundance, I hope each of us will remember that many here in Wapakoneta and eastern Auglaize County do not have enough to eat," Coffey said in the news release. "Mercy Unlimited is an important part of the chain that allows another meal to be served. We are glad to be a vital part of relieving parents' worry about feeding their children another day."
Coffey challenged people to think about if they could live on a small budget and encouraged others to donate a day's worth of food to people who have less.


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – The King University baseball team had a chance to win a Conference Carolinas series against Erskine College at home on Saturday. However, the Flying Fleet recorded 35 hits in the sweep of Saturday's doubleheader. Erskine took a 13-9 extra-inning win in game one, and followed it with an 11-0 victory in game two.
Erskine's Chase Corn started the game with a single through the right side, and later came in to score on a Drew Willingham single to right field. After Willingham stole second Logan Galliher drove him in with a single to center field to give the Flying Fleet a 2-0 advantage.
The Flying Fleet stretched the lead to four before King got on the board in the bottom of the third inning. Josh Huffman ripped a single through the left side to score Tyler Gaby who singled earlier in the inning. King tallied another run in the sixth, and Erskine matched it in the top of the seventh before the Tornado offense exploded.
Trailing 9-2 going into their last at bat, Tom Hooker started the seventh inning with a walk, and Brad Blanton followed with a single. With the bases loaded, Garrett Cook drove in Hooker with a single and Huffman laced a two-run single down the right field line to make the score 9-5. Carl Roberts brought the tying run to the plate when he drove in Steven Todoschuk, who walked earlier in the inning. With runners on first and second, Hunter Smith came up as a pinch hitter and crushed a home run to left center to tie the game at nine and send the game to extra innings.
However, Erskine bounced back with four runs in the top of the eighth, and didn't allow the Tornado (19-14, 7-8 CC) to score in the bottom half of the inning to take the game 13-9.
Erskine recorded 19 hits in the game while allowing eight King hits. Huffman paced the King offense, going 3-for-4 with three runs batted in.
The Flying Fleet (20-15, 8-9 CC) offense didn't slow down in game two, scoring in all but three innings. Erskine grabbed the lead with a pair of runs in the second, and extended their advantage to 5-0 with three runs in the fourth. After plating single runs in the each of the fifth and sixth innings, Erskine scored two runs in each of the final two innings to take the game 11-0 behind a 16 hit performance.
Erskine's Alex Rhodes held down the Tornado offense, only allowing three hits in six innings of work.
Gaby, Todoschuck and Jose Sola all recorded hits for the Tornado.
King will be in action again on Tuesday when they travel to Lincoln Memorial University. First pitch is scheduled for 4:00 p.m.


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Information in Police Reports is obtained from the Hinsdale and Darien police departments. Individuals listed in Police Reports who have been charged with a crime have not been proven guilty in court.
Theft charged, fire started
Riley McBride, 29, 429 S. Monroe St. was charged with theft between 8:41 and 9:16 p.m. Saturday at 600 W. Hinsdale Ave. Police were dispatched to a report of a suspicious person who was shining a flashlight on passing vehicles. While searching for the suspicious person, police observed a small brushfire in the parkway and spoke to a resident who reported lawn ornaments missing from the yard. The suspect was located walking in the 400 block of South Monroe Street and had burn holes in his clothes and was in possession of the items stolen from the victim's yard. The suspect is alleged to have started the brush fire.
Burglary charged
Javier Francisco Espinoza-Hernandez, 42, 6200 S. Whipple St., Chicago, was charged with burglary from a motor vehicle between 10:42 and 10:57 a.m. May 9 at 40 S. Clay St. The arrest was made at 10 p.m. Nov. 4. The suspect entered the victim's vehicle and stole a lunch bag, jumper cables and a cell phone. The suspect then fled the scene as the victim returned to his vehicle.
Unlawful sale of tobacco charged
Garrett Swierenga, 24, 718 N. County Line Road (Shell), and Lisa Murphy, 44, 28 E. Hinsdale Ave. (News Agency), were charged with selling tobacco products to minors between 4:25 and 4:31 p.m. Nov. 7 at Hinsdale News Agency and Shell Mini Mart. The suspects sold tobacco to a 16-year-old male.
Fight breaks out at Hinsdale Central
A 17-year-old female juvenile from Willowbrook and a 16-year-old female juvenile from Clarendon Hills were charged with fighting at 7:45 a.m. Monday at Hinsdale Central High School, 5500 S. Grant St. The suspects were fighting in the cafeteria of the school.
Telephone harassment reported
• A known suspect sent a victim text messages of a threatening nature at 10:41 p.m. Saturday in the 900 block of South Stough Street.
• A known suspect left telephone messages of a harassing nature at the victim's work between 10:28 a.m. Nov. 4 and 11:14 a.m. Nov. 5 at 15 Salt Creek Lane.
Residential burglary reported
A residential burglary was reported at 2:53 a.m. Saturday in the 600 block of West Hickory Street. Police were dispatched to an activated burglar alarm and found a door leading to the basement forced open. Residents were not home at the time of the burglary and nothing was reported missing from the home.
Criminal damage reported
Three known suspects threw eggs at a victim's house at 11:45 p.m. Saturday in the 400 block of West 8th Place. Suspects also left raw liver and anchovies on the porch and removed a gas cap on a vehicle parked in the driveway.
DUI charged
• Maurice Harris, 23, 7425 Woodward Ave., Woodridge, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, illegal transportation of alcohol, speeding and improper lane usage on Oct. 23 at 75th and Adams streets.
• Peter Wittwer, 43, 134 Oxford Ave., Clarendon Hills, was charged with DUI alcohol, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident and damage to city property in the 300 block of Plainfield Road on Oct. 25.
Battery charged
Gutis Stanevicius, 26, 4829 W. 109th St., Oak Lawn, was charged with battery on Oct. 27 at 7516 Cass Ave.
Theft charged
• Nidhi Sarman, 22, 732 Chesterfield Ave., Naperville, was charged with retail theft Oct. 30 at Walmart, 2189 75th St.
• Joanna Dobrovolny, 34, 405 Burlington Ave., Clarendon Hills, was charged with retail theft on Nov. 6 at Walmart.
Theft reported
• A student had an iPod Touch taken out of a purse at Hinsdale Central High School on Oct. 24.
• A student had an iPhone stolen from a classroom at Hinsdale South High School on Oct. 25. Two juveniles were charged with theft.
• A GPS unit was taken from an unlocked vehicle parked in the driveway in the 7600 block of Stratford Place on Oct. 26.
• A student had a cellphone taken at Hinsdale South High School on Oct. 28. A juvenile was charged with theft under local ordinance.
• A student had a cell phone taken during lunch at Hinsdale South High School on Nov. 4.
Burglary reported
Several items were taken from an unlocked vehicle parked outside a residence Oct. 22 in the 6900 block of Clarendon Hills Road.


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Carnegie Mellon University has announced this year's inductees into their Robot Hall of Fame. The new members are
- NASA's Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity,
- iRobot Roomba,
- DaVinci Medical Robot System,
- Huey, Dewey, and Louie, from the 1971 film "Silent Running",
- T-800 Terminator, from the 1984 film "The Terminator".
For the second time in a row real robots outnumber fictional ones in what Matt Mason, director of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, calls the "beginning of a trend", because robots are increasingly "approaching or even exceeding performance levels that once were only imagined".


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|December 21, 2004 12:00 AM EST
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Our search for the Twenty Top Software People in the World is nearing completion. In the SYS-CON tradition of empowering readers, we are leaving the final "cut" to you, so here are the top 40 nominations in alphabetical order.
Our aim this time round is to whittle this 40 down to our final twenty, not (yet) to arrange those twenty in any order of preference. All you need to do to vote is to go to the Further Details page of any nominee you'd like to see end up in the top half of the poll when we close voting on Christmas Eve, December 24, and cast your vote or votes. To access the Further Details of each nominee just click on their name. Happy voting!
In alphabetical order the nominees are:
Do vote, and we'll bring you the full results - including a selection of such additional comments on the nominations as you may care to leave via our feedback system - in the January 2005 issue of JDJ.Related Links:
|Dick Morley 02/22/05 03:09:34 PM EST
re greatest software heros.
The list concentrates on the desktop toys of the academics. where is CNC, Radar, embedded, Word processing etc
|jim scandale 01/18/05 10:59:21 PM EST
For a list labeled "top 20 Software People" there are an awful lot of what I would call purely hardware people. No doubt that they contributed greatly but "software people" they're not.
|Anonymous Fielding Fan 01/07/05 01:49:11 PM EST
Roy Fielding was key in giving us the internet we know today. His contributions to HTTP and URI, REST, etc., open source Apache and in helping establish Apache.org as we know it, he has helped countless open source projects from both technical and legal means. He was key in creating the technology environment that not only allowed the WEB to grow, but also open source. Roy's work in Web Arch. in particular REST is proving to help sanity check current WebService efforts and fix huge flaws in SOAP:
|conscientious objector 12/15/04 01:08:25 PM EST
Donald Knuth
|conscientious objector 12/15/04 01:02:06 PM EST
This reminds me of the VH1 top muscian lists.
So many credible names left off the list and the inclusion of more recent popular names that this effort has no credibility at all.
|KarenAnne 12/14/04 05:07:35 AM EST
Butler Lampson, and any number of other people from PARC. Ada, Lady Lovelace. You seem to think history started 20 years ago.
|Chiew Lee 12/13/04 02:29:04 PM EST
how abt Richard Stevens ?
he deserved to be on the list. everything is based on TCP/IP.
|John Smith 12/13/04 09:11:27 AM EST
<>Where is Warnock?
|Jenda 12/13/04 07:19:56 AM EST
I wish these people at least fixed the bugs in their JavaScript. I get an error each time I submit some feedback. Guess they don't expect anyone to browse with JavaScript error popups turned on.
|Jenda 12/13/04 07:15:05 AM EST
Mr A said: Not only did they put Turing side by side with, say, "Ann Winblad: Former programmer, cofounder of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners" (???) -- he's not even getting the most votes!
That's obvious. Most CS professionals refuse to vote for anyone in this poll.
|Jenda 12/13/04 07:10:57 AM EST
anon babbled: Knuth, like a lot of these "top twenty", are just Ivory Tower academics with no real applications in industry.
Yep, sure. Noone ever used Tex. Noone used the algorithms from that when writing their own DTP software. And most importantly noone ever learned programming from his "programming bible".
You may be great in Quake, but you aparently know very little about programming and CS history. Back to the school boy!
|harshr 12/13/04 05:09:24 AM EST
>>>I would challenge Tim Berners-Lee's positin
It would be harsh to exclude Berners-lee just because HTML ain't perfect, IMO - without it we'd not be in a positin to be voting on these guys anyhow!
|HTMHell 12/13/04 03:36:06 AM EST
I would challenge Tim Berners-Lee's positin on this list since it is HTML that has also brought us the Browser Wars, and the subsequent HTML writer's hell of trying to get a page to display properly on all the popular browsers, and all versions thereof.
The name HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language, implies a rich set of features that don't exist in reality
|suggestion 12/13/04 03:03:48 AM EST
The list would be enhanced by the addition of Chuck Moore, inventor of the ForthLanguage (http://www.forth.com)
|kai jones 12/13/04 12:52:52 AM EST
In regard to your top twenty programmers, I am recommending Kjell
He designed and built the software platform himself and lately has
|Shenme 12/13/04 12:49:47 AM EST
Perhaps the only 'save' the publishers have is to promise an installment of "The Top-20 Software People We Wish We Didn't Think Of - And Why". Which of course would then somewhat expose whatever biases/prejudices/deadlines they had in coming up with this abortive list. No Larry Wall has me scratching my head. What were you scratching?
|Second that!! 12/12/04 05:38:03 PM EST
>>I'm not sure what defines a top person in the software
I'll second that. Seems that the idea stemmed from a remark about *living* "software people" whereas many of the suggestions here are of historical figures. There might be multiple lists needed to 'map' i-Technology properly/thoroughly
|Junks Jersey 12/12/04 05:34:53 PM EST
I'm not sure what defines a top person in the software world according to this list. Grady Booch defined UML, which is much loved and much hated, but I'd hardly call that a reason to be a top person. Miguel of Ximian fame is there, though I'm hard pressed to think of why. He's proven to be much more of a self-promoter and follower than a leader or innovator (Gnome, Mono).
Feels like there should be more people on here who aren't just well known, but are solving hard problems. Should writing a famous and influential piece of software 20 or 30 years ago count? (If so, where are Ken Iverson and Ivan Sutherland?) Should writing something that becames popular count, even if it isn't necessarily all that good or relevant these days?
|Toby 12/12/04 05:28:11 PM EST
No, Warnock belongs on technical merit. Many of the listed entrepreneurs aren't inventors, or at least, they keep it quiet. Certainly Warnock's invention has affected almost everyone. Certainly everyone who reads newspapers, or books, or uses a printer. PostScript is -still- underrated as a general purpose programming language, which also adds a dimension to Gosling's nomination, for his work on Sun NeWS.
|No $$$ at all 12/12/04 04:56:55 PM EST
>>Where is William Kahan (IEEE 754)? Adele Goldberg
But if the entrepreneurs are to be deleted, doesn't that mean Warnock has to go - he's CEO of Adobe, that exploits PostScript commercially?
|Toby 12/12/04 04:28:05 PM EST
Where is William Kahan (IEEE 754)? Adele Goldberg (Smalltalk-80)? John Warnock (PostScript)? Wirth (innumerable things)? I also second Dijkstra, Stephen Wolfram, Andy Hertzfeld. Delete most of the entrepreneurs. Knuth should appear twice.
|Update3 12/12/04 03:01:48 PM EST
Here's an update on the current top 20 rankings:
1 457 Torvalds
|Jenda 12/12/04 02:47:47 PM EST
A little biased aren't we? Inventor of Java this, inventor of Java that ... noone'd give a damn about Java if Sun did not pump $millions into the marketing. Including several peole from the Java camp and omitting Perl altogether is telling. Telling about the maker of the list.
|Objective C 12/12/04 02:32:25 PM EST
>>Where is the father of Objective-C? :: Brian Cox
I think you mean Brad Cox
|rwerezak 12/12/04 01:48:37 PM EST
How about Dr. Knuth?
Besides the "Art of Programming" and TeX, he pioneered the idea that
|Java=CoCreation 12/12/04 11:19:42 AM EST
>>Other than the great Alan Turing... What happened to <>>>other greats like Edsger Dijkstra, or John Backus? <>>>These are the real greats of software.
Compared to these, where does James Gosling rank here, is he Top 10 material - or Top 20? - and what about the others involved in the original Green project before their baby, Oak, became "Java" - folks like Patrick Naughton and Mike Sheridan, did they just disappear into technology history's forgotten corner?
|beelsebob 12/12/04 11:14:30 AM EST
Other than the great Alan Turing... What happened to other greats like Edsger Dijkstra, or John Backus? These are the real greats of software.
|Duty Editor 12/12/04 09:28:07 AM EST
>The blurbs are also careless. For example, Kernighan's<>
thanks for your feedback Jonadab...the problem is, like a good many folks, you seem to be under the misapprehension that Kernighan perhaps *wrote* C. Many make this same mistake, probably because he and Ritchie co-wrote the 'bible' of C, The C Programming Language. But C is all Ritchie's work.
Here's Dennis Ritchie on C:
"Early in the development of Unix, I added data types and new syntax to Thompson's B language, thus producing the new language C. C was the foundation for the portability of Unix, but it has become widely used in other contexts as well; much application and system development for computers of all sizes, from hand-held to supercomputer, uses it. There are unified U.S. and international standards for the language, and it is the basis for Stroustrup's work on its descendant C++."
And here's Brian Kernighan: the following is excerpt from an interview he gave:
Q: What was your part in the birth and destiny of the C language?
Thanks for the feedback. Keep it coming.
|FromTokyo 12/12/04 07:25:22 AM EST
I'm surprised no one mentioned Noam Chomsky.
|Jonadab the Unsightly One 12/12/04 06:47:17 AM EST
> how does any list of this type not include Bill Gates
The same way it doesn't include Donald Knuth or Larry Wall.
The blurbs are also careless. For example, Kernighan's
|m0rphin3 12/12/04 06:33:07 AM EST
Nygaard and Dahl? Why on earth aren't they on the list?
|erik_norgaard 12/12/04 05:21:07 AM EST
Edgar (Ted) Codd: Father of SQL and mathematician, published in the 70s his paper "A relational model of data for large Shared Data Banks": http://www.acm.org/classics/nov95/toc.html
SQL was then developed by Chamberlin and Ray Boyce. I see them all absent from the list.
|[email protected] 12/12/04 05:17:10 AM EST
Where is Donald Knuth? TeX guru!
|ynotds 12/12/04 05:14:52 AM EST
>>Alan Kay, Steve Wozniak, Bill Atkinson, Bud Tribble,<>
I was gonna mention half your list before I saw it.
Some of the guys from the initial Mac development team set a standard that may never have been matched for internalising a complex code base.
But the Mac's very survival owed a lot to Quark who have done more to get print content computerised than any, depite being a difficult company.
Wolfram too doesn't do much to endear himself to list makers, but if you actually look at his programming as a body of work, he has no peers.
Of course I agree with other popular suggestions like Knuth, Wall and Engelbart, so maybe they'd be better trying to go from 40 to 100 rather than 40 to 20.
Games aren't my department, but the genre has had enuf influence to include 20% games programmers, starting with Crowther and Woods.
|Kupek 12/12/04 05:13:43 AM EST
>>Alan Kay, Steve Wozniak, Bill Atkinson, Bud Tribble,<>
Richard Feynman? I have an enormous amount of respect for the man, but he was not a software person, or even anything close to a CS person.
|jcr 12/12/04 05:12:48 AM EST
Alan Kay, Steve Wozniak, Bill Atkinson, Bud Tribble, Avie Tevanian, Richard Feynman, John Warnock, Evans & Sutherland?
|ajayvb 12/12/04 05:10:32 AM EST
Vincent Cerf and Bob Kahn? The glue on which this Internet is built is the TCP/IP suite.
|abhorrent C 12/12/04 03:35:27 AM EST
Bjarne Stroustrup created the most hideous of languages, and is indirectly responsible for the tremendous amount of abhorrent software plaguing us today.
Yet, the author of the fine language that is Objective C, doesn't even make the list. Unbelievable.
C is a hundred times the language that C++ is, and it pains me to see these people shed in the same light.
|brfisher 12/12/04 03:29:35 AM EST
Not to mention windows (tiled), CSCW with video conference, hyperlink implementation (Vannevar Bush gave us the concept, ans later Ted Nelson advanced it), and probably most importantly an implementation that had as a goal the augmentation of human intelligence. Basically, all of our human-computer interaction can be seen in http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html. But evidently the list have some other criteria for success, not sure what that might be.
|Khuffie 12/12/04 03:28:36 AM EST
Doug Engelbart? He may not have been that much of a programmer, but he gave us the mouse...
|tyrione 12/12/04 03:25:32 AM EST
Where is the father of Objective-C? :: Brian Cox
Without him NeXTSTEP would have not been. Tim Berner's Lee would have had one hell of a time developing the first WWW Browser.
All the advancements that people are wooing about in Linux, Java and IDE Development Tools were commonplace in NeXTSTEP and its development tools.
|listmaking advice 12/12/04 03:23:59 AM EST
Heh the Knoppix guy is a good example of flavor of the month. I notice this in sports lists too... half of the greatest players/teams/plays seem to have played or happened in the last 20 years.
A rule of thumb for every all time list maker should be: first construct the entire list ignoring everything that happened in the last ten years. Then make a list of recent additions, and figure out who should be removed from the original list to accomodate each one.
|Where's Serf 12/12/04 02:34:29 AM EST
Where's Vincent Serf? One of the *real* fathers of the Internet.
And what about the two Dartmouth profs who invented BASIC?
Should get Tim Bray and the other XML guy out of there. They did a lot of good work but XML was far from revolutionary - it was a pragmatic tailoring of SGML for the growing needs of the Web.
|andrew stuart 12/12/04 02:23:10 AM EST
Interesting article thank-you.
I am far from being a Microsoft (or any other sort of) bigot. For me IT is
It seems very odd to me not to have Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Steve Jobs
|Esteban Gutierrez 12/12/04 12:51:19 AM EST
Even Miguel de Icaza has done an excellent job promoting open source software in Mexico. It is good to make clear that his proposal for eMexico project was rejected by the Mexican President Vicente Fox due to his commitment to Microsoft in many projects, like enciclomedia (a multimedia classroom project that relies heavily on encarta 2004) or the core of eMexico project.
|MHedman 12/11/04 11:08:54 PM EST
I would have liked to have seen Steve McConnell included - no other person has affected the software I write as positively as McConnell.
|Mr A 12/11/04 11:04:16 PM EST
This list is beyond ridiculous. Not only did they put Turing side by side with, say, "Ann Winblad: Former programmer, cofounder of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners" (???) -- he's not even getting the most votes!
I mean, how could anyone seriously put up a list that doesn't include Babbage, von Neumann, Church, etc. but which _does_ include Knopper, Ferguson and Gay? I know I am a complete dork for getting pissed off at something like this, but I can't help it. This list is an insult to ever programmer, living and dead.
|Reader 12/11/04 10:27:06 PM EST
Why E. F. Codd, who was father of relational database, is not on the list? RDBMS is one of the most important software in computing history. It has changed commerce and society forever.
|ashley 12/11/04 10:09:57 PM EST
I agree about Knuth and Wall. Without Knuth, the list is difficult to take seriously and there are a couple on there who have made a dramatically lesser impact on open source and the internet at large than Larry Wall has.
|nate 12/11/04 06:39:08 PM EST
Ah very lovely, the Python vs. Perl war begins again. All I'll say is that Larry Wall should obviously be on this list if Guido van Rossum is to be listed. :)
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"You're just blind" - Theist (Omegle)
"You're just blind" - Theist (Omegle)
I know, I'm kinda spamming with this stuff as of late, but I asked the mods to make a new section for these kind of topics, so that they can move these threads in there.
Anyway, this is yet another chatlog with a friendly Christian, ending with him insulting me and disconnecting. Have fun!
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You and the stranger both like Religion.
You: Hello
Stranger: Hey
Stranger: So what do you believe in
You: Nothing. What about you?
Stranger: Im a christian
You: Catholic, Protestant, ... ?
Stranger: Non demoninational
Stranger: But do u believe that there are Gods
Stranger: Or u an atheist
Stranger: Agnoistic?
You: I don't like labels
You: But I'm an agnostic atheist by definition
Stranger: Bro its either you do believe or you dont
You: That's a bit oversimplified, don't you think?
Stranger: Why cant it be?
You: Give me a second
Stranger: K
You: Agnostic atheism , also called atheistic agnosticism , is a philosophical doctrine that encompasses both atheism and agnosticism. An agnostic atheist is atheistic, in that he or she does not believe that any deities exist, but is also agnostic, in that he or she does not claim access to definitive knowledge of this. The agnostic atheist can be contrasted with the agnostic theist, who is theistic, in that he or she does believe that one or more deities exist, but is also agnostic, in that he or she does not claim access to definitive knowledge of this.
Agnostic atheism should not be confused with weak atheism, which makes no reference to knowledge. It is possible for an agnostic atheist to subscribe to either strong or weak atheism, independently of his agnosticism.
Individuals identifying as agnostic atheists may justify their position by reference to epistemology, theory of justification or Occam's razor.
Bertrand Russell uses the example of the celestial teapot. He argues that although it is impossible to know that the teapot does not exist, most people would not believe in it.
Stranger: Oh so your believing in a doctrine that someone else wrote because it doesnt sound simple
You: No, that's the point, there is no doctrine for agnostic atheism. What I just gave you is the dictionary definition of the term "agnostic atheism"
Stranger: Dont get caught up i all that crap. Let me ask you something to you worship anything in your life. Because everyone worships at least one thing
You: That's incorrect. I, for one, don't worship anything
You: Nothing supernatural, at the very least
Stranger: Yeah it doesnt have to be supernatural
Stranger: Im talking matilerialistic
You: Well, how does one worship something that is not supernatural?
Stranger: Suppose i masturbate to porn everday
Stranger: I am worshipping porn
You: Not really, to be honest. That's just you masturbating
Stranger: But thats not the point, its consistent
Stranger: I enjoy doing it
You: Worship doesn't have anything to do with doing something consistently, though
Give me a second
Stranger: ..
You: wor·ship
reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
formal or ceremonious rendering of such honor and homage: They attended worship this morning.
adoring reverence or regard: excessive worship of business success.
the object of adoring reverence or regard.
( initial capital letter ) British . a title of honor used in addressing or mentioning certain magistrates and others of high rank or station (usually preceded by Your, His, or Her ).
Stranger: Yes l maybe that was a bad example but It says you can worship objects
You: Indeed. In that case I don't worship anything
Stranger: You dont strive for money?
You: No, I have everything I need. I'm not a fan of luxus
You: As long as I can pay my bills, I'm fine
Stranger: okay look
Stranger: what do you want most in your life
You: That'd be an abstract answer
You: Such as "happiness" or "wisdom"
Stranger: ddont look at it as a tricky question
Stranger: just answer it as if one answer popped in your head
You: Yeah, these are the answers that popped in my head
Stranger: happiness
Stranger: if you dont mind me asking why are you not happy?
You: The world is a horrible place, to be honest
Stranger: yeah it is
You: I'd be insane to claim I'm happy while knowing what's going on
Stranger: let me explain to you where im at with my faith in God and you can read and take it in or you can not, tthats totally fine.
Stranger: I dont like labels either
You: I used to be a Baptist
Stranger: in fact i dont like to be called a christian because many people have their own opinions and hyprocritcal view points on them
Stranger: i do believe this is one God
Stranger: who made this earth and us
Stranger: who knew us before we were even born
Stranger: he designed us to be exactly what we are today
You: How do you know all this?
Stranger: because I read the Bible
You: That leads to the next question. How do you know the Bible is valid?
Stranger: i know it is
Stranger: there are stories in the Bible in which relate to my life
You: The Bible is valid because you know it's valid? That's circular reasoning
Stranger: then how do you know its false?
You: Because it contains contradictions, historical inaccuracies, supernatural phenomena recorded by people who thought that sacrificing goats would heal their diseases
Stranger: historical inaccuracies...
Stranger: the Bible was written before, between, and after Jesus death
Stranger: it predicted that Jesus would be born and die on the cross
You: Just as an example, the Bible claims that the Egypts enslaved an entire race (the Jews) and that their army drowned in the red sea.
You: What you're mentioning is a self-fulfilling prophecy
Stranger: oh so a God that created the very universe that we're in cant drown a few opposers?
You: I'm saying that recent archeological investigations contradict that claim
Stranger: what recent investigations
You: If an entire army had been drowned in the sea, we would have evidence for it, such as their equipment
Stranger: so where is the red sea now?
You: What'd you mean?
Stranger: is the red sea present
You: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea
Stranger: oh so they gave up trying to find the equipment of the soliders because a hug mass of waters is blocking their way
You: What are you talking about? Christians claimed that they found parts of the armies equipment, archeologists investigated it and found out it was a hoax
You: The parts were recent, not thousands of years old
Stranger: you're not being specific
Stranger: what are you talking about
Stranger: who were these Christians
Stranger: who are the archeologist
Stranger: theres not enough evidence to prove that point
You: What point?
Stranger: now you lost me..
Stranger: you want solid proof to believe in something
Stranger: but there isnt any solid proof out there
You: But of course, that's just logical
You: Then why do you still belief?
Stranger: because i believe in something
Stranger: why am i here
Stranger: who made me
Stranger: what you simple dont care about how you were here
You: Who says that I don't care about it? Science is able to explain that very well
Stranger: oh great
Stranger: dont get started with science
You: Why?
Stranger: 1 billion years have passed and thats how we are here
You: (also, here's the link for the archeological findings: http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/c...heels.htm)
You: Have you heard about the Evolution theory?
Stranger: and yet it takes us 2000 years to get to such a technological age
Stranger: plus your website there says truthorfiction which made me laugh because its saying it could be fake or not
You: It's easy to dismiss a website based on it's name or interface, why don't you actually read it and refute it's content?
Stranger: because everything on the internet is writte by someone and that someone can be wrong
You: That's why you do research on it on multiple websites
You: Do you want more than this source?
Stranger: thats a waste of time
Stranger: the Bible is the only proof i need to fully understand my life
Stranger: serach up dead sea scrolls and believe it you want
You: Which brings us back to the question: Why do you accept the Bible as proof?
You: What about the dead sea scrolls?
Stranger: because it is the oldest proof we have on earth
Stranger: the oldest book
Stranger: written in hebrew
You: That's a logical fallacy, called "appeal to tradition". Just because it's older doesn't mean that it's any more valid. The Bible claims that the earth is flat, yet we know that it's a sphere.
You: Do you believe that the earth is flat?
Stranger: the Bible did not claim any shape of the earth
Stranger: it just calls it earth
You: But of course it did. The Bible talks about the four corners of the earth
Stranger: yeah thats a figure of speech its literally saying they're four corners
You: Actually, it wasn't intended to be that way. Up until a few hundred years ago, it was widely believed that the earth was literally flat
You: Scientists are the ones who pointed out that it was actually around because they observed the coming and going of ships
You: *round
Stranger: researches not scientists
You: Galileo Galilei was a scientists. But anyway, there are other examples, such as: The sun revolves around the earth
Stranger: what?
Stranger: where are u getting these examples
Stranger: you simply listing everything you read on the internet
You: Do you want me to provide you with the verses from the Bible?
You: You can read it up yourself in your Bible
Stranger: which tells me you put your life on soemthing that someone else wrote
You: Revelation 7:1
"After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree."
You: Look in your Bible, does it say something else?
Stranger: LOL
You: I'm using your source, which you say is valid
Stranger: you say something that neither of us understand
Stranger: reading does not mean you fully understand
Stranger: simply becuase you do not know the context
You: In what context is scientific inaccuracy supposed to be alright?
Stranger: its scientific
Stranger: really?
Stranger: how do angels relate to sceience
You: That's the point
Stranger: no its not
Stranger: you're a fool
You: The Bible claims that supernatural beings exist and you have no evidence for them other than the Bible
Stranger: all this doubt because you cant put a single heartbeat into faith
You: Faith is believing without evidence. The same way you can justify believing in Allah
Stranger: yet Allah is God
You: ... or the belief in polytheistic religions
You: Such as Hinduism
You: With thousands of different Gods
Stranger: yeap
Stranger: why make it so difficult
You: (also, calling me a fool instead of making a coherent argument is known as the "ad hominem" fallacy)
Stranger: to worship so many Gods when you have one
Stranger: i love these terms
You: It's less difficult not to believe in any God
Stranger: that people make up so it just helps you "understand" more
Stranger: you can argue with an agnoistic atheist whatever and have different view points as well
You: Sure, I don't doubt that
Stranger: and yet you're all in alone in your own world thinking that what you believe is right
You: I don't need to believe it, I have the facts to back it up
You: And what makes you think that you are less lonely if you believe in God?
Stranger: what facts
Stranger: those are not facts
You: It's not a fact that we have no evidence to prove the existence of God?
Stranger: i pity you
You: Is that supposed to be an answer to my question?
You: Also, telling me that you pity me is yet another fallacy, known as "appeal to emotion". It's time for you to start using coherent arguments
Stranger: you're just blind
Stranger: listen to kwve 107.9 fm
Stranger: hopefully you will be saved
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
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RE: "You're just blind" - Theist (Omegle)
(31-07-2012 02:27 AM)Vosur Wrote: Stranger: Im a christian
I'm trying to imagine a demoninational version of Christianity.
Is that when they worship demons at a national level? Demons that only belong to their own country? Would Justin Beiber qualify for that?
Joking aside... Vosur, that's the second time (in these Omegle chats) that you've said that everyone was flat-Earthers until recently. Sorry, but that simply isn't true. I don't have a good source for you, but there are many references (into pre-history) of an apparent knowledge of a spheroid Earth. You don't need a ship to realise that the horizon is closer than a flat-Earth would allow for.
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RE: "You're just blind" - Theist (Omegle)
(31-07-2012 02:47 AM)Red Celt Wrote: Joking aside... Vosur, that's the second time (in these Omegle chats) that you've said that everyone was flat-Earthers until recently. Sorry, but that simply isn't true. I don't have a good source for you, but there are many references (into pre-history) of an apparent knowledge of a spheroid Earth. You don't need a ship to realise that the horizon is closer than a flat-Earth would allow for.
I think you may have misread something. What I said was that
Quote:Up until a few hundred years ago, it was widely believed that the earth was literally flatWidely believed =|= Everyone believed in it
However, you are correct in saying that there are other and earlier methods to find out the shape of the earth.
RE: "You're just blind" - Theist (Omegle)
(31-07-2012 02:51 AM)Vosur Wrote: Widely believed =|= Everyone believed in it
Well, that's the point that I'm trying to make. I've heard/read many times that the notion of a flat Earth has been projected onto our predecessors, rather than that actually being the case.
Even the biblical reference can easily be seen as metaphorical, referring to the four corners of a map, rather than the actual shape. Else, you wouldn't just be thinking of the Earth as flat... you'd be thinking that it was rectangular. Those that could be described as flat-Earthers tended to see the world as circular, under a dome of the heavens. The four-corners is just a metaphor, along with the four-winds of North/South & East/West.
RE: "You're just blind" - Theist (Omegle)
(31-07-2012 03:01 AM)Red Celt Wrote: Well, that's the point that I'm trying to make. I've heard/read many times that the notion of a flat Earth has been projected onto our predecessors, rather than that actually being the case.Sure, it's possible. My current knowledge stems from history classes. I didn't bother to research on it further than that because I'm fairly confident that he has profound knowledge about the topics he teaches us about. I'm willing to change my point of view if you can provide me with sufficient evidence, in the meantime I'm going to research about it as well.
(31-07-2012 03:01 AM)Red Celt Wrote: Even the biblical reference can easily be seen as metaphorical, referring to the four corners of a map, rather than the actual shape. Else, you wouldn't just be thinking of the Earth as flat... you'd be thinking that it was rectangular. Those that could be described as flat-Earthers tended to see the world as circular, under a dome of the heavens. The four-corners is just a metaphor, along with the four-winds of North/South & East/West.Don't get me started on claiming that parts of the Bible are metaphors after the discovery has been made.
RE: "You're just blind" - Theist (Omegle)
(31-07-2012 03:13 AM)Vosur Wrote: Don't get me started on claiming that parts of the Bible are metaphors after the discovery has been made.
Oh, I know... it's just that, in this case, I see it as defensible.
RE: "You're just blind" - Theist (Omegle)
OK, now this guy was far more "normal" that the rest of these crazies you pick up. A pretty typical Christian, but he is still not that crazy or fundamental, he is just a believer. Find the more crazy ones, they are more fun.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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RE: "You're just blind" - Theist (Omegle)
Quote:listen to kwve 107.9 fm
I laughed so hard. I mean just by saying this he/she lacks coherent thinking skills.
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RE: "You're just blind" - Theist (Omegle)
(31-07-2012 02:27 AM)Vosur Wrote: Stranger: which tells me you put your life on soemthing that someone else wrote
*opens mouth*
No, that'd just be too easy.
RE: "You're just blind" - Theist (Omegle)
When someone comes so closely to quoting BA Baracas from the A-Team "I pity the fool", then you know the time for arguing is over.
It's time to hit him with a tranq gun and load him on the plane.
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Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her "happily ever after" begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect! Well, perfect except that the phone's owner, businessman Sam Roxton, doesn't agree.
"i enjoyed it."
The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children is here. When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent". French parenting isn't a known thing, like French fashion or French cheese. Even French parents themselves insist they aren't doing anything special. But French children are far better behaved and more in command of themselves than American kids....
Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect more than 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries. The opening ceremony is hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Peter Knight, is called to the scene of a ruthless murder: a high-ranking member of the games' organizing committee has been killed.
"Well done"
They call him the Devil Earl - a scoundrel and accused murderer who grew up on the violent London streets. A proper young lady risks more than her reputation when consorting with the roguishly handsome Lucian Langdon, but Lady Catherine Mabry believes she has no choice. To protect those she loves, she would do anything-even strike a bargain with the devil himself. Lucian desires respectability and a wife above all else, but the woman of his choosing lacks the social graces to be accepted by the aristocracy.
"Exceeded my expectations..."


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pamela wrote:I wasn't sure if you were "dieting" per se.
Yes, dieting in the sense that I want/need to lose weight and have tried McDougall, the Soy Zone, and keeping cals to 1600-1800 - but none of those diets were healthy for me. What I really want is to develop good eating habits and principles to last the rest of my life. I'm hoping Thrive is it - and I hope to get down to a good weight and stay there. I've been chubby all my life - so this will be a real accomplishment


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Department of Primatology
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phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 200
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Verena Behringer
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Primatology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig, Germany
phone: +49 341 3550 245
e-mail: verena_behringer@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
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I am currently working as a postdoc in a series of projects that, in combination, provide a benchmark for information on the behavioural physiology of two closely related hominoids: bonobo and chimpanzee. My work includes analyses of cortisol and alpha amylase to evaluate social and nutritional stress in captive and wild animals with ELISA assays. To determine developmental changes, I explore the dynamics of different steroids e.g. DHEA-S, and thyroid hormones in urine in relation to age, sex, and species. Part of my research focuses on C-Peptide measurement in the urine of bonobos, chimpanzees and orangutans. C-Peptide can be used as a biomarker for variations in body mass and nutritional status. This small polypeptide is produced during insulin synthesis and reflects changes in energetic condition in apes.


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Every day from today, December 1st, to December 24th you will be able to find a pose (random single, couple, prop poses from the shop sortiment and a handfull of never released ones) in this Advent Calendar for 1L$ each.
Due to timezone differences with SL, the Calendar is scripted which means each "door" will be available from Midnight to Midnight SLT and then automatically shut down, if you missed a day you can't get it anymore.
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Despite bogey binge, Canadian David Hearn makes British Open cut
David Hearn has past his first test of links golf.
The Brantford, Ont., native fired a one-over 73 at Royal Liverpool on Friday to make it into the weekend of his first-ever British Open.
Hearn's round included four bogeys and three birdies. The round follows up an opening-day two-under 70.
"In the middle of the round I stumbled a little bit," said Hearn, who bogeyed numbers six, seven, nine and 10 holes before settling down again with six consecutive pars to go along with birdies on the final two holes.
"That was kind of my stretch that I really struggled with here today. I really didn't do much wrong, it kind of popped up on me," Hearn said of his bogey binge.
"Apart from that I really felt good. I played great golf for the last eight holes."
Hearn is one-under for the tournament and 11 strokes back of leader Rory McIlroy.
Hearn's compatriot, Graham DeLaet, didn't fare so well.
The Weyburn, Sask., native stumbled to a four-over 76 (two-day total of 147) to sit one stroke outside the cutline (146), set at two-over.
"It's just so strong and you have to hit the ball so crisp to control the spin and that's really what I just wasn't doing on the front nine. Everything is just so difficult out there, even three, four-footers, the ball is oscillating and the wind is moving your body," DeLaet said of the windy conditions during his morning draw.
It was DeLaet's second crack at the British Open. Last year he made the cut at Muirfield but then finished ahead of only Sandy Lyle.


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The core curriculum is structured to include an on-campus lecture component, an on-campus imaging laboratory component, and an off-campus integrated clinical component. The final externship portion of the curriculum is structured to include supervised experiences in the clinical environment that require competencies, logs, and evaluations completed by the student.
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SF plane crash: Safety changes saved lives
It wasn't just luck that saved all but two of the 307 passengers aboard Asiana Airlines Flight 214, aviation safety experts said Monday.
It also took Federal Aviation Administration mandates from the late 1980s that forced manufacturers to bolster seat strength to withstand traumatic force and to line cabins with fire-resistant materials to stall fires.
"If this had happened before then," said Michael Barr, a senior instructor at the Aviation Safety School at the University of Southern California, "the inside of that plane would have looked like a jigsaw puzzle dropped from a second-floor window."
Instead, photos released by the National Transportation Safety Board show that rows of seats inside the Boeing 777 remained mostly intact, which allowed passengers to unbuckle and flee toward emergency exits.
The fire that followed may have been delayed just long enough to give crew members and rescue workers time to evacuate those who were stuck, Barr said.
A few seconds count
"A few seconds here and there adds up," he said. "It's the difference between saving lives."
Flight 214 clipped a seawall, skidded, briefly went airborne again and finally slammed to earth on its belly. The fact that most passengers survived may be due to a seat-strength upgrade that federal regulators required on new passenger planes starting in 1988, said Todd Curtis, an airline safety expert and creator of the website AirSafe.com.
Before then, seats were designed to absorb nine times the force of gravity, or 9 g's. But Curtis said crash investigations often revealed that passengers could have survived the impact if their seats had not uprooted and launched them into cabin walls.
Sometimes those seats blocked escape routes for surviving passengers, who then died as fire engulfed the plane.
Now, all passenger airlines are required to install seats that can absorb 16 g's.
Curtis said the crash of Flight 214 appears to have borne out the value of the strengthened seats.
"You see the cabin floor buckled, but the seats did not come unglued," he said. "It prevented more people from being killed or injured. If those seats come undone, it's just chaos in there."
About 30 years ago, regulators started requiring airlines to outfit planes with fire-resistant materials, which increases available evacuation time, Curtis said. Even blankets and pillowcases must be made of special material.
Better training
Curtis also pointed to improved airline training that emphasizes clearing a crashed plane within 90 seconds. Crews are run through a variety of scenarios, including some in which multiple escape routes are blocked.
Federal investigators said Monday that two of the inflatable slides on Flight 214 deployed inside the aircraft. Crew members had to take axes to at least one to free a trapped colleague.
Photos showed a detached engine blocked at least one of the remaining exits.
"It looks like they only had one-fourth of their emergency exits to work with," Curtis said, "and they still managed to get everyone off."
Another safety expert said the crew's actions, firefighters' rapid response and the lack of panic among Flight 214's passengers were also factors in the minimal loss of life.
"When the plane lands and the tail pops off, there's not a lot a manufacturer can do to prepare for that scenario," said John Silcott, an airline pilot and executive vice president of Expert Aviation Consulting in Indianapolis. "At that point, there's nothing a pilot or anyone can do. It's not like you could design and push a button and make it stop."
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Welcome to the last of three lessons on dialog! I hope you're all experimenting with new ways to write dialog so that it sounds more natural, helps to enhance characterization, and establishes a good pace for your writing.
Before we start the final lesson, here's this week's
Quick Take: the abbreviation "vs." stands for the word "versus", not "verses" or "verse". It means "against".
This is a very common mistake, and it doesn't help any that even television sportscasters get it wrong. More than once during the Olympics, I heard a commentator say "the United States verse Canada" or some such statement.
When I taught high school, it was very common to hear students ask each other "Who do we verse in the basketball game tonight?" As much as I like to imagine basketball players reciting poetry at each other, the usage is still wrong.
Okay, back to dialog.
I really don't want to take away from Ann's instruction on the punctuation and mechanics of dialog-writing (coming soon), so I'll encourage you to look at the placement of the commas and periods in the following examples, and also at the capital and lower case letters. There are also several websites you can access with instruction on this tricky skill. So on this week's homework submissions, I'm just going to comment on the content, and if there are problems with punctuation or capitalization, I'll just note that and encourage you to give it a final polish.
I've already covered a few dialog pointers:
1. Be sure your dialog sounds natural—like the speech of real people
2. Be sure that it's true to your character's age, sex, status in life, and geography
3. Use dialog to develop your characters
4. Don't overuse fancy verbs in your dialog tags—you can use said most times (although there are certainly some times when you'll want to use a different verb).
5. Think twice before using a verb + adverb in a dialog tag. Then think again.
The bulk of this lesson is largely a repeat of last year's lesson on dialog, so if you were a follower of last year's classes, you're permitted to pass on this one.
A writer has many choices about how to write any given snippet of dialog.
1. Put the dialog tag first.
Jan said, "My granddaughter loves to nibble on her own chubby toes."
This is a perfectly fine way to write dialog. It's not used as often as #2 below, but if you have a story with a lot of dialog—especially an extended back-and-forth conversation—putting the tag first will give it a bit of variety.
Of course, you can also use a verb other than said in this construction. Do so intentionally—ask yourself if you need the verb in the tag, or if you can tweak the speech to show that action.
A rare usage:
Said Jan, "My granddaughter loves to nibble on her own chubby toes."
Putting said first is more often seen in poetry or in prose from an earlier century.
2. Put the dialog tag at the end.
"I love how Piper nibbles her tootsies," said Jan.
This is probably the most common, all-purpose construction. As with #1, you can vary this by using a verb other than said (with the same cautions). You could also write it thus:
"I love how Piper nibbles her tootsies," Jan said.
3. Put the dialog tag in the middle.
"In any comparison of grandbabies," said Jan, "my own would certainly come out on top."
This is another good way to vary the rhythm of your dialog sentences, and in my opinion, it's underused. If you do this, be sure to break up the speech in a natural place. For example, the following sentence just feels wrong:
"In any comparison of grandbabies, my own would," said Jan, "certainly come out on top."
As with #1 or #2, substitute for said when absolutely necessary.
4. Don't use a dialog tag at all.
"Have you seen Piper's adorable blonde fluff?"
"Jan, you're just a teensy bit obnoxious about that baby."
Tagless dialog will move your story right along, and will save you precious words. If you do this, be sure that your reader can keep track of each speaker by
a. giving each one a distinctive voice
b. having them address each other by name every now and then
c. referring occasionally to other identifying events or characteristics
d. adding tags every so often
NOTE: if you find that your story consists almost entirely of dialog, consider writing it in the form of a play or a skit. Or italicize one voice. All-dialog stories are very difficult to write well, but can be very effective when they are.
5. Use a sentence describing the speakers' actions either just before or just after the speech.
Jan bounced her granddaughter on her lap. "How's my little Pippie today?"
"Phew, that diaper is ripe!" Jan held Piper out at arms' length.
This is a very effective way to write dialog. In fact, it's so effective that some writers use it as their only dialog-writing technique. I don't have much of a problem with that…if you're going to use only one of these five techniques, this is the one to use. But I also like to see some variety in dialogue, so that's what I'll assign for your
HOMEWORK: Write a little story (be merciful—less than 300 words, please), using a variety of dialogue techniques.
If you choose to do the homework, please make a comment or ask a question.
Of course, you may make a comment or ask a question regardless of whether you do the homework.
EXTRA CREDIT: Flip through the pages of your favorite novelist and observe how he or she writes dialog. How does that affect his or her work? For example, Lisa Samson writes almost entirely tagless dialog, and her novels are very briskly paced.


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Bryant battles to runner-up
BRYANT – It was a hard-fought weekend for the Bryant Everett Black Sox in the Arkansas American Legion AA State Tournament, but the Black Sox fell just short of a championship on Sunday night when they came out of the loser's bracket to face Pine Bluff National Bank in the final and lost 13-4 to be the state runner-up.
With a bye in the first round, the Black Sox (26-7) defeated Stuttgart 7-2 in the second round before falling to Newport 3-2 to drop to the loser's bracket. It didn't look promising for Bryant as they were down by three runs going into the last inning against Wynne. But a Wynne meltdown – four walks and two hit by pitches to start the final inning – allowed the Black Sox to score seven runs in the last inning and take the game 12-9.
Bryant had Lakeside next and was down by one run before scoring two in the fifth inning with two outs to win 5-4 and earn a rematch with Newport. The Black Sox exacted their revenge picking up a 5-3 victory over Newport to make it to the championship game against Pine Bluff. The Black Sox would have had to defeat Pine Bluff twice to win the title, but just ran out of pitching in the end.
"We knew we were going to run short," Bryant Coach Jason Thompson said. "We wanted to get back to where we were at. This was our goal, we made it here. We knew if we got to this point, anything could happen."
Things were looking good for the Black Sox in the top of the first against Pine Bluff when leadoff man Trevor Ezell tripled to center field and scored on Korey Thompson's RBI groundout to the shortstop for a 1-0 lead.
Pine Bluff responded in the bottom of the inning when Tyler Zuber hit Austin Lewis in with a two-out RBI single to right field for an unearned run to tie it at 1-apiece. PBNB would add two more in the third inning when Bryant starter Cody Gogus walked Justin McCarty with two outs. Zuber came through again for Pine Bluff with a double to left field to make it 2-1 and would later score on Tanner Attwood's single to center for a Black Sox 3-1 deficit.
Bryant's Harrison Dale reached on an error when the left fielder dropped a fly ball to start the top of the fourth inning allowing Dale to reach second base. Drew Tipton flew out to the left fielder Dylan James, who made a throwing error to let Dale score to make it a 3-2 ballgame.
Pine Bluff starting pitcher Chris Smith doubled to start the bottom of the fourth and then things got out of hand for Everett. Landon Reed attempted to lay down a sacrifice bunt, but Gogus tried to get Smith out at third and threw the ball into foul territory allowing Smith to score and Reed to advance to second. Another sac bunt attempt went poorly for Bryant when catcher C.J. Phillips' throw to first went into right field allowing Reed to score for a 5-2 Pine Bluff lead. Gogus walked the next batter and was pulled for a relief pitcher, but Pine Bluff welcomed Jason Hastings with a double and single, and relief pitcher Dakota Besancon with a single and a double resulting in six runs in the inning and a 9-2 PBNB lead. Still with no outs, Justin Emmerling relieved Besancon and got out of the inning.
"Those guys are good," Thompson said of PBNB. "Pine Bluff is a great team and when you're down on pitching and tired like that, we had a few mistakes we made, left some guys on base. They hit the ball well. I don't think there's a ball I remember not hitting off the wall."
The Black Sox picked up two more unearned runs in the top of the sixth to make it 9-4, but Pine Bluff scored four in the bottom of the inning to put the nail in the coffin.
Pine Bluff outhit the Black Sox 14 to 5 and Ezell had three of Everett's five hits. Ezell went 3 for 4 and scored a run, Phillips went 1 for 3 and Austin Caldwell went 1 for 2. For PBNB, Lewis went 4 for 5 with three runs, Zuber went 3 for 4 with three RBIs, Attwood went 2 for 3 with three RBIs and McCarty went 1 for 2 with three runs and three RBIs.
Thompson was unable to coach in the championship game because he was ejected in the previous game against Newport. Newport starting pitcher Grant Black caught a rocket shot lineout from Ezell to end the bottom of the third and, according to Thompson, started blowing kisses to the Bryant dugout. Third base coach Jimmy Parker had some words for Black and Newport's coach and Black's dad had some words for Parker. That's when Thompson, who coaches first base, blew up and had even more intense words for the Newport coach and both coaches were ejected.
The Black Sox struck first in their revenge game with Newport when Harrison Dale hit a double to left field with one out in the bottom of the second, went to third on Tipton's ground out to second base and scored on a wild pitch to make it 1-0.
Newport would tie it in the fourth inning and took the lead in the fifth at 2-1 before Phillips reached on an error by the shortstop in the bottom of the inning. Trey Breeding attempted to sacrifice bunt him over, but the Newport third baseman didn't charge the ball and Breeding was safe with a hit to put runners at first and third. Caldwell came through with a single to left field to tie it at 2-2, but with runners at first and second and no outs, Bryant couldn't push any more runs across in the inning.
Tipton and Phillips reached on one-out walks in the sixth and after Breeding struck out for the second out, Caldwell came through again with a double to the right-center field gap to score both runs and make it 4-2. Thompson knocked Caldwell in with an infield hit to make it a three-run game.
"Caldwell stepped up big time," Coach Thompson said. "He's been struggling. He stepped up two clutch times. That was huge for us."
Everett relief pitcher Dakota Besancon relieved for starter Chase Tucker in the sixth inning and held Newport scoreless through two innings for the win. Tucker was solid giving up two runs in five innings.
"It was Besancon's first appearance in Double A this year," Thompson said of Besancon, who played for the junior legion team for the whole year. "He hadn't played any with us."
Caldwell, the last-place hitter, went 2 for 3 with a run and three RBIs, Thompson went 2 for 4 with an RBI and Gogus and Dale each went 1 for 3.
"These guys played hard and they didn't quit," Thompson said. "I'm proud of them. You can't ask for any more from these guys. They gut-wrenched all year long. They battled and battled and never quit. It was a good season, I'm proud of them."


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Scotland welcomes back wild beaver
Wolves, mammoths, velociraptors watching with interest
Scotland is today one animal species richer following the release into the wild of three beaver families - the first examples to enjoy the Caledonian habitat since the animal was driven to extinction in the 16th Century.
The release at sites in Knapdale Forest, Mid-Argyll, follows years of lobbying by beaver aficionados and conservation experts, and was made possible largely by private donations and grants.
Co-ordinating the repopulation is an alliance of the The Scottish Beaver Trial (represented by Jenny Holden and Simon Jones in pic, above), the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and host partner Forestry Commission Scotland.
On hand to witness the Norwegian beavers' liberation this morning was Scottish Minister for the Environment, Roseanna Cunningham, who said: "Welcoming beavers back to Scotland marks a historic day for conservation. These charismatic creatures are not only likely to create interest in Scotland from further afield but crucially can play a key role in providing good habitat for a wide range of wetland species."
Scottish Beaver Trial chairman Allan Bantick chipped in with: "The release of the beavers today means that we are one step closer to rebuilding the natural biodiversity of Scotland. Beavers are a native species made extinct by man and we are hoping that our trial reintroduction is a step towards seeing this corrected."
Bantick noted that 24 European countries have already reintroduced beavers at 150 different sites. The Scottish project is, he added, a time-limited trial "with the purpose of assessing the effect beavers have on the local environment and how well they settle into their new habitat here in Scotland".
Bantick countered some critics' assertion that the beavers would impact on migratory fish numbers, especially salmon. He insisted this hadn't happened anywhere else in Europe, and in any case "the notion cannot be tested with this trial because there is no Atlantic salmon present in the trial site".
The beavers, meanwhile, are now settling into their new environment. Scottish Beaver Trial Project Manager, Simon Jones, said: "The release of the beaver families went extremely well. They were placed into purpose-built artificial lodges at carefully selected points around the trial site. They will now gradually gnaw their way out of the lodge at a pace that is comfortable for them before exploring their new surroundings." ®


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Ohne Titel Straddles Primitive Egyptian Modernity for Spring 2010
>> Ohne Titel's Alexa Adams and Flora Gill told Fashionista backstage that their Spring 2010 collection was their strongest yet, and they weren't kidding. Inspired by "the graphic lines, lush textures, and bold colors in Egyptian reliefs and sculptures," according to their show notes, Adams and Gill adapted their signature tailoring and body-con sensibilities to span an oxymoronic look of primitive modernity. They elaborated to The Cut: "We looked at a lot of wall painting and sculptures, and so we're kind of playing with taking those same kind of proportions and applying them on the body."
Lace-up heels, flats, and thigh-high boots done in collaboration with Cesare Paciotti are sure to have the shoehounds drooling, and the prevalent texture in the collection — including patches of multicolored hand embroidery — was exquisite. Alastair McKimm, who worked with Alexander Wang the last two seasons, styled, and both Cathy Horyn and Visionaire's Cecilia Dean appeared front row.


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With the christening of the winery at Blueline and its distinct single-varietal wines, Hourglass has entered an exciting new phase of its evolution. A brand synonymous with terroir-driven, modern Napa wines of the highest caliber, its goal is and will always remain the same: To capture the essence of two of Napa Valley's most expressive vineyard sites in bottled form, and to have the honor of sharing them with you and your families for decades to come.
One of the world's most highly regarded regions for wine production and tourism, the Napa Valley is the AVA that brought worldwide recognition to California winemaking. The area was settled by a few choice wine families in the 1960's who bet that the wines of the area would grow and flourish. They were right. The Napa wine industry really took off in the 1980's, when vineyard lands were scooped up and vines were planted throughout the county. A number of wineries emerged, from large conglomerates to small boutiques to cult classics. Cabernet Sauvignon is definitely the grape of choice here, with many winemakers also focusing on Bordeaux blends. Whites are usually Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc.
Within the Napa Valley lie many smaller sub-AVAs that lend even more character specifics to the wines. Furthest south is Carneros, followed by Yountville, Oakville & Rutherford. Above those two are St.-Helena and the valley's newest AVA, Calistoga. These areas are situated on the valley floor and are known for creating rich, smooth Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Chardonnay. There are a few mountain regions as well, nestled on the slopes overlooking the valley AVAs. Those include Howell Mountain, Stags Leap District, and Mt. Veeder. Wines from the mountain regions are often more structured and firm, benefiting from more time in the bottle to evolve and soften.
With hundreds of red grape varieties to choose from, winemakers have the freedom to create a virtually endless assortment of blended wines. In many European regions, strict laws are in place determining the set of varieties that may be used, but in the New World experimentation is permitted and encouraged. Blending can be utilized to create complex wines with many different layers of flavors and aromas, or to create more balanced wines. For example, a variety that is soft and full-bodied may be combined with one that is lighter with naturally high acidity. Sometimes small amounts of a particular variety are added to boost color or aromatics. Blending can take place before or after fermentation, with the latter, more popular option giving more control to the winemaker over the final qualities of the wine.